Last night, I greatly enjoyed watching my children delight in catching fireflies. They chased them all over the yard to try to catch them. Arianna got her bug container and eventually caught four lightening bugs.

Arianna was excited she caught a frog.

Ryan posing with the frog.

Only a Dad thinks of these things. He suggests putting the frog in with the lightening bugs. They then proceeded to observe the frog and the lightening bugs. I think the frog was too scared to eat. I will have to say that I was interested in the frogs reaction to being in a container with bugs.

Chris received a box from his Mom for his birthday. One would have thought that it was the kids’ birthday. They initially handed the presents to Chris to open. The kids looked so eager to open them that Chris asked if they wanted to help. Not sure if he realized the extent of their “helping”. It began with them just helping him with the one in his hands…then it quickly progressed to them pulling them out of the box and then proceeding to tear into those presents saying “let’s see what Daddy got for his birthday”. After they were done with the presents, they played with the box of packing popcorn. They pretended it was snow. Let’s just say at the end of this fun, there was not a single piece of popcorn left in the box. What a mess! The kids had a blast though. After all of the fun, they learned the important life skill of cleaning up after yourself:)

(Yes Ryan is pretending to be a dog and picking the popcorn up with his mouth…we had to keep reminding him to not put these into his mouth).

Wednesday, May 27, 2009

This week’s Meme is to interview our kiddos! I know all across the blog world, you can find ALL kinds of moms ranting and raving about the wonders of the work box system! So, let’s hear what the KIDS have to say?!

Not sure what you can glean from this but thought their answers were cute…

1. What is your favorite thing about the workboxes?

We get to do stuff. --Arianna (age 5)

Ummmm….playing a game with Spiderman--Ryan (age 3)

2. What is your LEAST favorite thing about them?

When we have to work.--Arianna (age 5)

I love Spiderman--Ryan (age 3)

3. Do you think the workboxes are helping you become a better student?

Yes--Arianna (age 5)

Yeah--Ryan (age 3)

4. If you could change one thing about the workboxes, what would it be?

I don’t know. --Arianna (age 5)

Um, a phone. I mean a clock--Ryan (age 3)

5. What is your favorite activity that you didn’t really get to do much before you started the workboxes?

This week’s Meme is to interview our kiddos! I know all across the blog world, you can find ALL kinds of moms ranting and raving about the wonders of the work box system! So, let’s hear what the KIDS have to say?!

Not sure what you can glean from this but thought their answers were cute…

1. What is your favorite thing about the workboxes?

We get to do stuff. --Arianna (age 5)

Ummmm….playing a game with Spiderman--Ryan (age 3)

2. What is your LEAST favorite thing about them?

When we have to work.--Arianna (age 5)

I love Spiderman--Ryan (age 3)

3. Do you think the workboxes are helping you become a better student?

Yes--Arianna (age 5)

Yeah--Ryan (age 3)

4. If you could change one thing about the workboxes, what would it be?

I don’t know. --Arianna (age 5)

Um, a phone. I mean a clock--Ryan (age 3)

5. What is your favorite activity that you didn’t really get to do much before you started the workboxes?

Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Okay...the first step to an addiction is admitting a problem...well I confess, I am a Curriculum Junkie! I love browsing through various curriculum to do our lesson plans. I like having various books to use to plan our week. Maybe that is why I cannot go by just 1 single curriculum...

Anywho...I went to the worst place for a curriculum junkie today-The Homeschool Gathering Place. They have tons of new and used curriculum. I love the place!

I spent hours in there just browsing. I went specifically to buy our Math Curriculum for next year. I decided to combine Making Math Meaningful(which they had used) and Singapore Math. Yes, I chose 2 math curriculum... I told you I was a junky. I only bought 1A of Singapore to see if we will actually use it. Figured I could split up the activities in the workboxes. I just couldn't decide between the 2 curriculum. I like different things about each of them.

My favorite find today was Language Lessons for the Very Young by Sandi Queen. It has beautiful full color art work and poems. It uses various methods of Charlotte Mason. I am so excited about this! I went to their website and they have a book for 3 year olds as well. I can't wait to get that book to do with Ryan. I honestly was not taught a lot about "quality" art, poetry and literature growing up therefore I don't know much about what is "quality" in these areas. These books consolidate a lot of it into one book and will hopefully teach me to recognize what is "quality" and perhaps teach my children what I have yet to learn.

I also found a really cool Cuisanaire Alphabet Book for $2. I thought these would be great to use in the workboxes.

The good thing is that I am using much more of my "curriculum" books since we now do the workboxes.

Monday, May 25, 2009

This week in the workboxes...we are continuing our unit on Ears and Hearing. I have gotten so many great ideas from others that I thought I would share some of my ideas for this week… (I have a 3 year old son and a 5 year old daughter) 1) Leading Little Ones to God—Work on our memory verse for this week: Proverbs 4:20

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About Me

Who am I? That is a difficult question to answer! I am a wife to a loving man! I am a Mom of 2 wonderful children of which I homeschool. I love to scrapbook and take pictures mainly of the kids. I have five dachshund that are as close to kids as they get.